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Five Trust Building Do’s from PsychologyToday.com

What’s needed in these times of diminished trust, are positive trust building “dos.” Want more trusting relationships at work? Here are five simple trust building dos that will enhance work relationships, no matter your role: 1. Operate with respect. Respect is an essential trust building component. If you don’t offer respect to others, why would someone …

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“Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?”

In her May 2012 article, “Can you Call a 9-year Old a Psychopath?“, Jennifer Kahn explores the therapeutic and parental challenges that seems to surround children whose behavior falls well outside the bounds designated typical. Specifically, she looks into the nature of ‘fledgling psychopaths,’ whether their behavior is immutable or responsive to intervention, and the …

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Listen Compassionately, No Need to Solve Right Away

Many people have asked me recently how to be present for their loved ones, how to listen well, and what to say in response to some very challenging feelings. First, know that it does take real effort, skill, and patience to sit and be present with another in distress. Our impulse is to help, to …

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Exercise, whether am or pm, is a boon for your well being

NYTimes Well Blog looks into “Why Afternoon May Be the Best Time to Exercise” By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Find the article at the link above. A few quick notes of my own in italics: But, Dr. Colwell says, that clock can become discombobulated. It is easily confused, for instance, by viewing artificial light in the evening, he …

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See Denver Youth Achieving: cityWILD Spring Dinner

cityWILD is a bold effort to bring the typically exclusive world of outdoor experiential education to a broad non-traditional audience: low-income youth of color. For the past 14 years, we have been providing tuition-free, comprehensive experiential education programs for urban youth (10-18 years old) in northeast Denver. Our mission is to provide low income, culturally diverse …

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No Shit, Sherlock: “Deporting Parents Hurts Kids”

It concerns me that this distinction is an issue: families being torn apart by the Immigration Deportation regime. How can it be so taxing to differentiate between families and violent criminals. I have multiple client families where one parent of a child with a disability has been deported, or lost in detention for months, while …

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